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’ve been reading a lot of New Adult romance lately. I’ve read some great books and some terrible books. I’ve also encountered something I’ve never seen before—books with what I’m going to call a cliffhanger ending. These books seem to stop half way through the story, like the author took their completed manuscript, chopped it into two or three pieces, and called each one a novel.

Now, if a book is part of a series, the author had better end book one with a good enough hook to make me preorder book two. But the hook ending differs from the cliffhanger ending in significant ways. In a hook ending, though the reader is dying to know what happens next, the primary story arc of the book has been completed. In a cliffhanger ending the primary story arc hasn’t been completed.

Let’s look at a few examples...

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*This post was first published during the month of June 2014